Best tilling combination?

I am considering purchasing and using a chisel plow and a howard Rotovator in place of the 2 bottom and disk harrow and spike tooth harrow.

Does anybody use this combination to work with trees and is it successful in dealing with the roots? I want to get to a seed bed with only two tools instead of three.

Allan -
For my efforts in N. Fl. I use a disk plow. Down here we refer to them as "New Ground" plows. IMHO it takes less HP to turn the ground and there is no plow point to bury in a stump! I use this extensively after a control burn to invigorate the soil. My stumps were 12-28" dia. and lots of "fatlighter"

For the new pines I have not harvested my timber yet, but don't anticipate much of an issue as trees will be pulp wood (small dia.) but larger than Christmas trees.

I would strongly suggest you consider Jerry D of NC comments (PS - might also want to go by Agri-Supply) hee-hee. Timber companies down here just run a heavy crusher after the harvest then hill up dirt between old rows.

• 550 with disk plow

I also remove trees by digging and that leaves to many ruts and five to seven years of mowing compacts the ground, it needs to be loosened up the trees grow faster and I can turn around the crop faster. (this equals more money) I wholesale them out by the patch and start with a fresh new level seed bed. New weed seed not a problem a little herbecide in the right places and an aggressive mowing program keeps them down. also by removing the stumps it keeps my diease and pest problems down.

Thanks for all the good imput and suggestions I really appriecate the good advice.

I think the chisel plow will place the roots on top of the ground, which may or may not be what you want?

Some have said the heavy disk plows handle roots better than a molboard plow?

I've seen _very_ heavy large-bladed disks (disk-harrow) but few blades that were made for working timberland.

Again, I have no actual clue. But sometimes when a dummy like me makes a foolish comment, others will respond with helpful advise? :)

--->PAul